Description:Portrait of children (by full bowls) and staff (in the pantry) at a meal at a children's kitchen. Yiddish/English sign above door: "...150 children maintained by the Women's Branch and the North London Committee of the Ukrainian Federation of Jews..."

Date:

August 1911

Location:

Novo-Vorontsovka

Photog:

Adamov, A.N.

Description:Studio portrait of "the Literary Committee" (written on back in Yiddish): a group of young men and women. (Standing, right) Dovid Miller.

Description:Studio portrait: "Three important women activists of the Bielsk committee of the PPS [Polish Socialist Party]... The woman at right, who was then called 'Rakhtshe', is now of Patterson [N.J.]." (From 'Forward' photo essay on revolutionaries, 1932.)

Date:

1919

Location:

Lublin

Photog:

n/a

Description:In an office of the AJDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee): a committee meeting of women who will be in charge of a children's summer camp takes place under an American flag.

Date:

Before 1907

Location:

Vilna

Photog:

n/a

Description:Studio portrait of Dvora Esther Gelfer (1817-1907), philanthropist and founder of a `gmiles khesed' society, which provided small interest-free loans. She wears an elaborate bonnet, a `shaytl' (wig worn by Orthodox women) and holds a cloth bag.

Date:

After World War I

Location:

Svisloch

Photog:

Description:Studio portrait of Neshke Sulies, one of the first women workers to join the Jewish Socialist Bund. She was also active in the 'khevre line' (society to give overnight lodging).

Date:

pub. May 9, 1926

Location:

Biala Bilits

Photog:

Kacyzne, Alter

Description:"A girls' 'kheyder' [traditional school]. ...the Biala... 'melamedke' [female teacher] and two of her pupils..." "A young ladies' seminary. Feyge Shnur... instructs young Yiddish maidens how to pray." ('Forward' Yiddish and English captions.)

Description:Vignetted studio portrait of Khane Dreir, an elderly woman wearing a 'shaytl' (wig), bonnet and spectacles: (written in Yiddish) "Khane the 'rebbetsin' (rabbi's wife)," who was known for her charitable works.

Date:

Location:

Galicia

Photog:

n/a

Description:Two tombstones: (left) "Perl, wife of a rabbi and daughter of the rabbi of Zbaryz, 1811." (Right) "Honored, cherished, and respected, one of the leaders..."

Date:

ca. WWI

Location:

Russia

Photog:

n/a

Description:Studio portrait of Anna Sedlis, a Jewish nurse who served in the Russian army during the war with her husband, Elias, a medical doctor.

Date:

ca. 1930s

Location:

Kaunas

Photog:

n/a

Description:In the pediatrician's office at the Jewish Child's House: (l to r) a nurse feels a baby's glands; a shawled woman holds a baby on her lap and consults with a doctor who sits behind a desk. (From an album.)